A man with Parkinson’s Disease is mocked by a bunch of Teabaggers at a health care reform protest. Sooo… who’s side are you on?
Health
Posted inFood and Drink
Get Your Nanny State Out of the Kitchen
Thanks to Blogtown tipper Katherine for alerting us to this bit of ridiculous culinary legislation from the New York state assembly aimed at banning the use of salt in that state’s restaurants (from reason.com): The penalty for the dastardly use of salt in your cuisine? $1,000 per violation. Holy shit! I doubt the legislation will […]
Posted inPolitics
“Let’s get it done.”
From the president’s speech today on health care reform: On one end of the spectrum, there are some who have suggested scrapping our system of private insurance and replacing it with government-run health care. Though many other countries have such a system, in America it would be neither practical nor realistic. On the other end […]
Posted inPolitics
What He Said
Neil Steinberg in the Chicago Sun-Times: He who sets the terms wins the debate. Take the anti-abortion crowd. They’ve had much success restricting a procedure that’s safe, legal and morally accepted by a solid majority of Americans because they’ve been able to deploy the concept of “babies.” They are not restricting the rights of women, […]
Posted inSex
New French Anti-Smoking Campaign
The copy on all three ads reads, “Smoking means being a slave to tobacco.” The campaign—which features two boys and a girl—equates smoking with sucking off creepy old men, i.e. the cigarette company suits enriched by young smokers. Some folks think the ads are sexist (despite the two-boys-to-one-girl ratio), you could argue that they’re homophobic […]
Posted inPolitics
Obama’s Health Care Summit
Right here, right now. 8 a.m.: We’re now an hour into this multi-hour event, and opening statements are just wrapping up. Which, Obama pointed out, is not surprising in a room full of elected officials. The biggest flash-point so far has been the question of whether reconciliation will be used to move the health care […]
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Is the Public Option Back?
MoveOn.org says that she is… John Cole at Balloon Juice says that she’s not… At some point, people are going to accept that there were never 51 and most certainly were never 60 votes for the public option. I can say this quite confidently, because had there been that level of support for it, it […]
Posted inNews
Jeff Merkley and The Fight to Revive The Public Option
Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley is one of four Democrats who’ve just announced that they’ve signed a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid to put a public health insurance option to a vote via a maneuver called “reconciliation” that requires only 51 votes to pass, as is being reported by The Huffington Post and CBS. The […]
Posted inHealth
God, Our Healthcare System is Depressing
No healthcare? You can always use potatoes to heal your wounds. Today, February 1st, is the monthly lottery drawing for low-income Oregonians to get onto the Oregon Health Plan. If you’re not rich, not pregnant and between the ages of 19 and 64, you could qualify to receive free or relatively cheap healthcare from the […]
Posted inFood and Drink
This Is Why Your Kids Are Fat
NYT: Between 1977 and 2002, the percent of the American populationeating three or more snacks a day increased to 42 percent from 11 percent, according to a large study of American nutritional habits conducted by the Agriculture Department with the Department of Health and Human Services. Snacks at school, snacks at home, snacks after sports. […]
Posted inAstronomy
Gettin’ Wuzzy with Symphony of Science.
New Symphony of Science video! As the jumble of tags before this post’s headline (sort of) implies, this one’s genetics-related—and it’s guaranteed to be billions and billions of times more interesting than your high school biology class.
Posted inSex
This Just In: DON’T LISTEN TO MEGAN FOX!!
Oh, shit! I was just settling down in front of the computer to read the morning news with my warm bottle of vinegar when I read THIS: HEALTH experts have warned dieters against taking advice from actress Megan Fox. The Transformers star has been blasted for hailing the benefits of swigging vinegar. She recently said, […]